Based on the links (youtube videos) provided below and your own research about women whose inventions helped to create the world as we know today, do a short presentation about them and their ground-breaking inventions. Do not forget to include Lady Ada Lovelace, the grandmother of modern computers (Lord Byron's daughter).
1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DBwchocvs (general overview) 2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLOAuYv87uU (about Ada Lovelace)
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Unit 8 1. What would your perfect job entail and why are these things important to you? What would be the worst job for you and what are its disadvantages? What would you do if you found yourself in a repetitive, dead-end job? Can you see yourself holding one job for the rest of your life? What are some challenges you might face if you chose a high-flying job? How do you generally deal with stress? How does one balance being successful at work and having a social life and/or family? Is it necessary to sacrifice one for the other? Do you form an opinion about a person based on the profession they have chosen? 2. Regrets: Talk about things in your life that might have turned out differently if you had acted in a different way. Talk about two bad things that happened in your life in the past that you wish hadn't. Talk about two bad things about the present that you wish were different. What can one do to turn his/her life around, to change the present situation? 3. Talk about 2 inventions and inventors/pioneers in their filed whom you admire. Tell us how they conceived their ideas. What were some challenges that they had to overcome? What are some characteristics of great innovators? You can talk about scientific innovations, founding great business enterprises [entrepreneurs, e.g. Steve Jobs, Apple] or about people who left a great impact on the art world and beyond with their innovative thinking [e.g. Shakespeare, innovative language]. 4. Talk about protests. Talk about some past instances of social/political injustices and how people managed to make a difference. Do you think protests, demonstrations, boycotts or civil disobedience have an impact on the world today? Support your opinion with arguments and examples. What are some present day issues that you would like to protest about and why? How would you go about it?
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